Wavelet and Karhunen Loève transformations applied to SAR signals and images

CESAR F. CAIAFA; MIRIAM P. SASSANO; ARACELI N. PROTO

La Serena, CHILE

Conferencia; MEDYFINOL'04 (XIV Conference on Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Nonlinear Physics; 2004

Universidad de los Andes, CHILE

We developed two new tools to deal with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, based on two different and powerful mathematical formalism: wavelets (WT) and Karhunen Loève transforms (KLT). WT are used to remove the undesirable speckle, which comes from the specific measurement process of SAR systems, and KLT for the co-registration of SAR images.